Ah okay, I'll see if I can get Minibits set up. I saw a lot of recommendations to use Wallet of Satoshi for this but it's custodial and I can't get it in the US, apparently.
Ok, amethyst is great, stick with that unless you want to use primal with built in wallet (it will ask for email confirmation but just create a temp email with https://temp-mail.org/ ). Regarding a zap wallet, im not sure breez integrates too easily. For receiving zaps, minibits is an ecash option that gives you an lightning lnurl address to save to your amethyst profile. For NoKYC sats, i would highly recommend robosats. If you are new to btc, don't mix your nokyc with kyc coins.
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vpn gets you places the USA sanctions my man, you gotta lot of homework on your hands already so i dont want to overload you, but we're pretty nice here on nostr and will help when you need it. You already seem to have a mindset for privacy first which is good, i wish i would have started that way. Everything else comes eventually at the right time.